whimsy

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by whimsy 1y ago
Oh, thanks for correcting me! Now that you mention it, I'm confused by a memory I have. Wired speakers seem to be less common these days but I remember being told about two decades ago that the "proper" way to install speaker
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by whimsy 1y ago
This is very, very cool; it's a thing I've been looking for on my backburner for several years. It's a very interesting problem. There are a ton of directions I can think about you taking it in. The household application: t
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by whimsy 2y ago
reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
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by whimsy 9y ago
Coverage isn't great, but these two have managed to get in to my bookmarks: http://thecontext.net/ https://legiblenews.com/ I seem to recall a similar weekly service for HN but I can't recall the
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by whimsy 11y ago
> Also, scary that SSH appears to be partially affected(?) Yeah. Is it sufficient to set ServerKeyBits to 2048?
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by whimsy 12y ago
See my reply to zo1 on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7838800
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by whimsy 12y ago
Actually, San Francisco and San Jose both have laws increasing the minimum wage. Richmond also just passed an ordinance in March to raise it to $12.30 by 2017, which will be the highest minimum wage in CA.
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by whimsy 12y ago
"A larger body of economic research investigates the effects of state and federal minimum wage increases. These studies compare employment trends for states or counties that have different minimum wages. The best studies make compariso
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by whimsy 12y ago
This isn't the first time we've seen an artificial increase in the minimum wage in the US - it's just the highest artificially increased minimum wage. There are nine other localities where this has been done where there'
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by whimsy 12y ago
"University of California, Berkeley study: Who Would be Affected by an Increase in Seattle’s Minimum Wage?" is a more comprehensive study on the empirical effects of raising minimum wage in nine other US localities. http:/&#
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by whimsy 12y ago
It would be an interesting and compelling secret if there was evidence for this occurring. Research indicates that it's simply untrue. "A larger body of economic research investigates the effects of state and federal minimum wage
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by whimsy 12y ago
Well, the primary goal is, of course, to raise the income of minimum-wage earners. Failure criteria probably include things like a) a marked increase in businesses that rely on minimum-wage earners going out of business relative to other a
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by whimsy 12y ago
• Studies of the impact of minimum wage increases on restaurants’ operating costs find that an increase of 10 percent in the minimum wage increases operating costs by about 1 to 2 percent. • Researchers find small one-time price increases i
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by whimsy 12y ago
Ohoho, you think all minimum wage positions are full-time? This is simply false.
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by whimsy 12y ago
"Scrivere" is Latin (I think) for "to write," as in "scrivener."
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Bernie's Better Beginner's Guide to Photography for Computer Geeks(berniesumption.com)
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by whimsy 13y ago
On the other hand, now their wages are entirely disposable income, right?
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by whimsy 13y ago
Just like most PHP projects.
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by whimsy 13y ago
What software are you using to screencast?
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by whimsy 13y ago
Uh, doesn't b. preclude your conclusion?
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by whimsy 13y ago
This is a large thread. "Remote" is the keyword you want to include to advertise to people who are using ctrl-F.
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by whimsy 13y ago
Huh. That's an interesting discovery; thanks for sharing it. That's going on my reading list.
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by whimsy 13y ago
I know how ants stop going to a food source (e.g. the pheremone trail stops getting refreshed on the return trip) but how do bees stop? I know they transmit pathfinding information with dancing... do the bees just stop dancing on return or
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by whimsy 13y ago
The link to their petition is broken. =\
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by whimsy 13y ago
> Every time you see a dot, do NOT think attribute access. Think message sending a la Smalltalk. Huh. You just rekindled my interest in learning Ruby. Learning Smalltalk was pretty mind-expanding.
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by whimsy 13y ago
> there are a large number of syntactical ambiguities, so writing a parser for it should be completely impossible Keep in mind that while your protest does sound intuitive - e.g. that Ruby can be syntactically ambiguous, ergo it is unpar
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by whimsy 13y ago
What would you recommend as a substitution for that entry?
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by whimsy 13y ago
https://github.com/nddrylliog/thechoice/pull/3 :)
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by whimsy 13y ago
firstdoor, twodoors, secret, randomsecret, conditionals, lying, ship
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by whimsy 13y ago
It's really irritating that the syntax is incorrect in some examples.

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